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Originally Posted by CRussel
Hmmm. Tempting. If I just vote for my favourite, Longitude, then we have a five-way tie and runoff. I wonder if that's a record?
I'm going to wait a bit, however. If it comes down to it, there are three I'd enjoy reading, though I'd rather read Longitude more than the other two.
Really, folks, you can't go wrong here. Longitude not only gives you science, but a look at history, British culture, and the struggle of the outsider against an entrenched power block. And it really is hard to overstate the impact that solving the longitude problem had on the economics, politics, and daily lives of the nations of the world.
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And it has even been dramatized as a movie on TV with Michael Gambon playing Harrison and Jeremy Irons portraying the 20th century man who restored the clocks.